Morning journal and courier., 1887-02-19
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 LOCAL NEWS.
 Brief Mentfen.
 Magazines bound at Dormans.
 Rents collected promptly at H. P. .Hoadley's.
 The veteran 6remens ball brought net profit of about $400.
 The Railway Conductors Brotherhood meet tomorrow afternoon in this city.
 Work upon the enlargement of Peck Bros. manufactory will be begun in few weeks.
 The Church of the scension cleared about $80 by their fair and supper Thursday night.
 This afternoon meeting of Holyoke ai- umn@ takes place in the parlors of the Church of tke Redeemer.
 Senators Hawley and Allison have prom ised to deliver lectures in the Phi Beta Kappa course at Yale this season.
 Rev. Mrs. Hanaford will speak on gospel temperance at English Hall tomorrow after noon at o'clock. The public invited.
 The G. M. R. shoe shops in Naugatuck will shut down for an indefinite period to- night owing to the large stock on hand.
 Bishop McMahon has issued the rules for the Lenten season for the Roman Catholics of this diocese. Lent begins next Wednes- day.
 MT. Charles Bigelow of Chicago, firm Of Bigelow & Healy, will erect this spring a $10,000 house on Orange street, corner of Cottage street.
 Davenport council entertainment at Athe- neum Wednesday evening, Feb. 23d. Tickets 50 and 25 cents, on sale at L. c. Gilbert's, 89 Church street.
 Elm City Juvenile Temple holds very in- teresting meetings Sunday afternoons at p. m. in English Hall, the mode of conducting the meeting being exceedingly attractive.
 Vivid lightning and heavy thunder last evening. It was the first thunder storm of the year in this section. The streets received thorough washing from the heavy rainfall.
 The subject of Rev. Dr. Peck's address at Trinity M. E. church tomorrow night, "An evening with Canon Farrar at Westminster Abbey" was postponed from last Sunday night.
 Mir. Warren Robinson, the builder residing on Ferry street near Lombard, continues in a very much prostrated condition owing to Bright's disease and but little hopes are en- tertained in the case.
 Mr. H. H. Palmer read last evening a very
  interesting paper before the Young Mems church on 'What part shall we take in tho social reforms of the day?"
 The last of thu assemblies previous to Lent was given last night at Loomis' Notwith standing the storm it was a brilliant and pleasant event. There will be one more given, after the Lenten season.
 The Good Samaritans will be addressed to- morrow evening by Hon. Lynde Harrison and Dr. Vishno. There will also be singing by select quartette and instrumental music by Mr. Fitzgerald. All are welcome.
 Charles Mcdonald has sued the city for $1, 900 by reason of injuries received on Jan uary 17th by falling on the ice in front of E. B.. Bowditch's residence on Orange street. filling & Webb are McDo1sld's attorneys. MT. John s. Beach appeared for the resi- dents of the west side of Whitney avenue before the board of compensation last night in offering objections to their being assessed for the Telford pavement on the east side of the avenue.
 At the meeting at St. Paul's church last evening Bishop Hare and Herbert Welsh made very interesting addresses on matters relative to the welfare, present and prospec- tive, of the Indians. Owing to the pouring rain the audience was small.
 Fire Marshal Kennedy has just issued permit for the erection of another large kiln dry to the Shoninger piano and organ manu- factory in the rear of the works, the firms large and increasing business demanding this further addition to their manufacturing fa- cilities.
 TLe new oil painting of ex Mayor Hol- comb, executed by MT. H. I. Thompson, was added yesterday to the collection of portraits of New Haven's ex-Mayors in the aldermen's chamber, where hereafter these portraits will be displayed instead of at the Mayors office as hitherto.
 A petition signed by several hundred men is to be presented at the next meeting of the Common Council for the removal of the center truss or the building of a new iron bridge on Olive street, near State, where MT. Edward Lawrence's coachman was badly injured some weeks since.
 At the meeting of the Olive branch council No. 2, D. of L., in the Insurance building Tuesday night, the council was presen ted with twenty five beautiful regalias and $5. 10 in cash by Lady Trumbull council of Water bury. The presentation was made through Mrs. Sarah M. Burnes, ex-N. G. c. The lodge meets every Tuesday evening in the Insurance building.
 The condition of MT. Charles c. Blatchlsy, the real estate dealer, was yesterday little more hopeful. He was feeling easier and other symptoms were little more favorable. The physicians attending think that his physical condition has been gradually under mined for six months past by the approach of what has proved to be Bright's disease, but which was thought to have been mala- rial difficulty.